A Chess Training App for Imitation Learning

·LessWrong··

LLMs learn faster if we first pretrain them to imitate dense teacher-forced examples. I speculated that this would work on humans too, so I built a chess app where you try to imitate Stockfish. My theory is that this will help humans quickly become OK at chess, but they will reach a wall where practice on full games is more efficient than continued pretraining[1]. I also think the app is fun.This is probably not an efficient way to learn the basic rules of chess, and you'll need to train opening...

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